[plug] Oracle 9i for Linux

[Chris Caston]

I have downloaded it already but I'm starting to think that if something
is takes too long to download then you probably don't need it in the
first place.

regards,

Chris

# Modern man thinks he loses something--time--when he does not do things
quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains--except
kill it.--Erich Fromm

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 09:06, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Saturday 19 Apr 2003 13:58, caston at arach.net.au wrote:
> > Does anyone have the above or know a waix resouce for it?
> 
> > I'm currently looking at over a gig and a half of cpio images and not
> > looking forward to using up all my bandwidth for the month.
> 
> I don't think the ISPs would thank you for this, but here's a wildcard 
> for you: how much would you be willing to pay per ISO of bandwidth? 
> Call it 700MB, at ArachNet or WestNet retail data rates that's about 
> $40 per ISO.
> 
> Many ISPs allow you unlimited downloads from 00:00 to 07:00, and many 
> people don't use all of their bandwidth even during daylight hours, so 
> perhaps there's a niche for a bandwidth broker? "We mail you CDs at $5 
> per burn plus $1 per hundred meg plus $5 fixed postage and handling on 
> any number of CDs". 1500MB would fit on 2 CDs and therefore cost $30. 
> Hard disk is cheap, so a big mirror seems appropriate. You could 
> discount if the item(s) happened to be mirrored already.
> 
> Or maybe one of the ISPs wants to offer this?
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
>